[NTLUG:Discuss] Strings in BASH, an easier way?

[Robert Citek]

Do they give the same results?

$ whatis  -r . | sort | uniq | wc -l
4728

$ man -k . | sort | uniq | wc -l
4728

$ for i in $(echo $PATH | cut -d: -f1- --output-delimiter=" "); do
  for j in $(ls -1 $i) ; do
    apropos $j
  done
done | sort | uniq | wc -l
apropos: fatal: regex `[': Invalid regular expression
4688


On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 8:59 AM, terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
> How about?:
>
> man -k .